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Tailor and Ansty 46: I tell you, cats are the queer articles. You never know where you are with them.at article, n.
Tailor and Ansty 46: I tell you, cats are the queer articles. You never know where you are with them. Tailor and Ansty 13: She is his wife, or, as he refers to her, ‘his bitter half, his misfortune’.at better half, n.
Tailor and Ansty 42: There was a dancing master in my time, by the name of Moriarty, who had an awkward block of a fellow to teach.at block, n.1
Tailor and Ansty 49: ‘Do you know the beehive dwelling up in the hills from Cahirdaniel, Tailor?’ ‘Cahirdaniel? You may be bloodyful sure that I do.’.at bloody, adv.
Tailor and Ansty 178: A great stupid block of a bosthoon of a fellow? A proper galoot, if ever a galoot walked the face of this earth?at bosthoon, n.
Tailor and Ansty 137: There was a picture of him with a damn fine ‘brusher’ (beard). Oh! a neat brusher entirely.at brush, n.4
Tailor and Ansty 52: Didn’t I pay my money and see the whole bloody caboodle?at whole caboodle (n.) under caboodle, n.
Tailor and Ansty 49: Wisha! Listen to him! Full of jokes and the laughing and the carry-on.at carry-on, n.
Tailor and Ansty 27: The next piece of business was called ‘whipping the cat’. The tailor would come and he would take the door off the hinges and put straw under it and sit down on it and cut and sew that garments he was to make on it.at whip the cat, v.
Tailor and Ansty 33: ‘Will ’oo have “colouring”?’ she asks then. ‘Colouring’ is Ansty’s term for milk.at colouring, n.
Tailor and Ansty 123: Yerra, there used to be some fierce weddings in the old days.at fierce, adj.
The Tailor and Ansty 134: But the rest of them were soon clean mad for it.at mad for it, adj.
Tailor and Ansty 38: I don’t mean one of those galoots who have the title of being a doctor but have no knowledge.at galoot, n.
Tailor and Ansty 49: He is equal to every occasion, be it man or event or notion. If the Pope walked in he would offer him a ‘heat of the tea’.at heat, n.
Tailor and Ansty 181: She hasn’t much of the ‘lumps of temptation’, as Carty the Weaver used to call them.at lump, n.
Tailor and Ansty 101: Am Bostha! you’d search the earth before you would find an equal pack of mugwumps of bladdergashes!at mugwump, n.
Tailor and Ansty 42: Then they would dance to ‘puss-music’, music made by the mouth alone, without any instruments. [Ibid.] 50: What for? Why, for no reason at all beyond the exercising of his own ingenuity. Things like that were like daisies in a bull’s puss to him.at puss, n.2
Tailor and Ansty 193: He was what they call in this country a quack doctor. This is a doctor who has all the old tradional learning.at quack, adj.
Tailor and Ansty 64: He fulfilled his part of the bargain and then skedooed off.at skedaddle, v.
Tailor and Ansty 96: He was a tidy, decent slip of a man.at tidy, adj.
Tailor and Ansty 66: Hould your whist, woman!at hold one’s whisht (v.) under whisht!, excl.
Tailor and Ansty 84: The Englishman wasn’t used to this, for it was the right whisky, and soon he was getting pretty ‘young’ (merry).at young, adj.
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